Description of problem: When using texttopaps as the CUPS text/plain filter, text comes out much bolder than with the CUPS texttops filter. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): paps-0.6.8-6.fc9 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo abcde | /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops 1 x '' 1 '' > cups.ps 2. echo abcde | /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopaps 1 x '' 1 '' > paps.ps 3. evince cups.ps & evince paps.ps Actual results: paps.ps is much heavier than cups.ps. Expected results: Comparable output. Additional info: This has come up frequently on the cups mailing list since we switched to texttopaps as the text/plain filter.
So which font would you prefer for default?
"Courier" (which fontconfig maps to Nimbus Mono L) looks better I think. It's closer in appearance to the font CUPS provides. I don't mind which font paps uses by default, but it would be nice for 'texttopaps' (i.e. in CUPS mode) to use "Courier".
Actually it would be brilliant to be able to use the Postscript Type 1 font in /usr/share/cups/fonts/Courier* for this, but I'm not sure what is needed to make that happen. Obviously it won't have a complete UTF-8 glyph set, but with correct fontconfig configuration I expect it will fall back to Nimbus Mono L/Liberation Mono for those glyphs.
testing package available on http://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/tests/469325/ "Courier" as the font name is used for texttopaps in this testing package.
Yes, works fine in that package.
Fixed in paps-0.6.8-8.fc{8,9,10,11}.
paps-0.6.8-8.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/paps-0.6.8-8.fc10
paps-0.6.8-8.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/paps-0.6.8-8.fc9
paps-0.6.8-8.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/paps-0.6.8-8.fc8
paps-0.6.8-8.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
paps-0.6.8-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
paps-0.6.8-8.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.